Not only Russian copyright, broadcast and digital law
At the meeting with right holders, internet companies, state authorities, like Roskomnadzor, and other stakeholders, Yandex agreed to sign anti-piracy memorandum, but under condition – this memorandum is to be signed by Mail.ru. This memorandum provides creation of new entity – Association of internet services, which would be responsible for creation, development and maintaining of “piracy register” (register of web-sites with illegal content).
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Russian association on protection of copyright in internet (AZAPI) asked Russian internet watchdog – Roskomnadzor – to penalise Russian search engine Yandex because the last still indexes URLs to web-sites, blocked in 2016 – librusec and Rutracker. This is first time when the representatives of right holders apply the new law entered into force in September. The law provides fine up to 700 thousands Roubles if the subject of regulation fails to comply with law.
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Russian Ministry of Culture (MinCult) believes the current Russian law, providing restriction of access to pirate web-sites or illegal content in online environment, is outdated for today realities. Now it is not enough just bring the lawsuit against copyright infringers and seeking restriction of access, it is more simple and faster to block web-site without court order. MinCult believes it is better to restrict access without participation of court order – just at the request of right holder.
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The purpose and aim of memorandum, proposed and lobbied by right holders, is restriction of access to illegal content in internet within the Russian territory without court order in order to reduce time scale and expenditures. But Yandex turned all things upside down and according to right holders the entire initiative and work on this memorandum senseless.
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This year Russian Federal Antitrust Service (FAS) has developed and proposed its fifth regulation packet for internet marketplace and digital environment in order to ensure health competition and good appropriate conditions for business development. But the Russian ministry of economy (MinCom) after duly review and analyse of proposed regulation has given it negative assessment.
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Russian major right holders – media companies producing and distributing audio-visual content – discussing the opportunity to delete links to web-sites with illegal video content from search results without court order or any court participation; such opportunity could be realized in the form of voluntary agreement or memorandum obligatory for all its participants.
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When the three television channels have filed a suit against Yandex, it was not going to give up. After the court has granted injunction against Yandex and issued an order to restrict access to Yandex as preliminary measure (Roskomnadzor did not execute this decision, because it knows, sometimes much better then court itself, whether there is copyright infringement or not) Yadnex opposed preliminary measure.
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Despite the fact that many stakeholders from entertainment industry claim the current Russian copyright law in its part providing the measures against internet piracy is ineffective, the Roskomnadzor – internet watchdog and “Russian Hadopi” – reports how many pirate web-sites it has blocked and how many illegal copies of content have been deleted.
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Text and Data Mining (TDM) is a term commonly used to describe the automated processing (“machine reading”) of large volumes of text and data to uncover new knowledge or insights. TDM can be a powerful scientific research tool to analyse big corpuses of text and data such as scientific publications or research datasets. Copyright issues contribute to the slow development of TDM in EU research.
Three Russian television channels have filed complaints against Yandex aiming to block illegal copies of four serials. All three complaints require Yandex to “cease creation of technical conditions causing providing of illegal copies of audiovisual works in question in search results”. The complaints also seek 10 thousands Roubles as compensation for infringement of exclusive rights. Yandex is not agreed with position of TV channels and intends to oppose requirement to block referrals to pirate copies in search results.
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